Bread-raiser



(No Model.) B. & A. GER

BREAD KAISER. 7 No. 411,853,. Patented Oct. 1', 1889.

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

ELIJAl-l BUSI-IYAGER AND AARON BUSHYAGER, OF HARRISON CITY,PENNSYLVANIA.

BREAD-RAISER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,853, dated October1, 1889.

Application filed June 15, 1888. Serial No. 277,258 (No model.)

To all 2071,0111, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ELIJAH BUSHYAGER and AARON BUSHYAGER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Harrison. City, in the county ofVestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Bread-Raisers, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention is a device for facilitating the quick and thorough risingof bread; and it consists in the construction and novel combination ofparts hereinafter described,illustrated in the drawings, and pointed outin the claim.

Figure 1. of the drawings represents a perspective view of the device,the doors being open to show the interior. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal section thereof;

Referringto the drawings by letter, A designates a rectangular chest,having a floor a resting on suitable supports-such as strips a, or le sand B B are similar equal doors, hinged at their outer edges to thefront edges of the sides of the chest, and when closed forming the wholefront of the chest, except the front rail 1;, crossing the top thereof,and against which the top edges of the doors rest. The doors are keptclosed by the button I), pivoted on the inner side of one door, whichbutton,when turned up, enters a recess in the said rail b, and by thebutton b pivoted to the outside of one door.

(J is the detachable cover of the chest, provided with the transversestrips or cleats c, which fit within the open top of the chest when thecover is in place.

I) is a transverse partition a suitable distance below the top, andprovided with the notches d d in its edges adjoining the sides of thechests, through which openings communication may be had between theupper chamber E and the lower chamber F.

G G are transverse strips secured to the inner sides of the ends of thechest within the chamber E, and inclining downward and inward over thenotches or openings d to prevent flour or dough from falling into thelower chamber F, and to deflect the heat toward the center of the upperchamber or 001m partment E.

H H are vertical supports rising from the floor a to the partition D,and arranged at equal distances from the ends of the chest, andadjoining the front and back thereof.

I I are transverse strips secured to the outer sides of the supports Hand at opposite points to the inner sides of the ends of the chest forthe support of the removable shelves K, which are each composed of thetransverse strips 7o, held together by the longitudinal strips that fitbetween the strips I, upon which the ends of the strips 70 rest. Thesaid shelves are therefore more correctly gratings, which permitaircurrents to flow through them.

L is a lamp resting on the floor between the supports H on each side,and M is a metal disk depending from the partition D above the lamp, tospread the heat therefrom, and prevent the latter from strikingimmediately upward against said partition.

A thermometer N may be hung on the inside of the chest to mark thetemperature therein, which, if too high or too low must be brought tothe desired point by causing the lamp to burn more or less brightly.

The flour is mixed in a tray resting on the partition D, and the stripsG will prevent any that splashes out of the tray from falling into thelower chamber F.

To work the dough, the cover C is reversed and serves as akneading-board. When the dough has been made, pans are filled therewithand the pans placed upon the gratings, and, if necessary, on thepartition D. The cover isthen replaced and the bread kept in the chestsufficiently long to rise to the proper point.

Having described our invention, we claim The improved bread-raiser,comprising the chest, the series of shelves or gratings arranged at eachside of the chest and forming an intermediate space'adapted to receive alamp or other source of heat, the deflector located at the top ofthe'said intermediate space and serving to deflect the heat down uponthe shelves or gratings, the partition I), arranged above the shelvesand providing a kneading-board, and having notches d in its sides forthe passage of the heat, said partition also forming an upper chamber orcomour own we have hereto affixed our signatures partrnent for thereception of a thermometer, in presence of two witnesses. the transversestrips arranged above the notches and inclined to deflect the heat to-ELIJAH BUSHYAGER. 5 ward the middle of the upper compartment, AARONBUSHYAGER.

and the removable cover, substantially as de- Witnesses: scribed. H. W.LOVE,

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as RICHARD THOMAS.

